The changes in Harima's country caught Zhengheng a little off guard, but he didn't have enough time to deal with these changes recently, and most of them were handed over to his retainers to help him deal with these chores. Due to the change of time, Masahiro has been unconsciously still vulgar for a long time, and for the development of the Date family, many people have also been sacrificed, and these people were originally placed in Karamatsu, his hometown, and now he is building the future main city of the Date family in Okayama.

In the same way that a city in Western society begins with a church, the construction of a main city starts with the construction of a shrine, and moving from Karamatsu to a new shrine will be a very sacred thing, and Mashiro is now busy with this matter, which is a more important ritual for the Date family than anything else. Politics and balances are also not immune.

The new shrine was built on the ruins of the original Myezenji Castle, which was able to serve as a prestigious castle in history, which is enough to show the peculiarity of its geographical location, and now it is one of the most important buildings in the vicinity of Okayama Castle, and it also has its presence. The newly built shrine is called Gokoku Shrine, and the locals call it the Gokoku Shrine of the Date family, and the water from the Asahikawa River has been introduced as part of the Gokoku Shrine, where all visitors wash their hands and gargle to cleanse their bodies and minds, and Shoheng is no exception.

However, when tens of thousands of people wash their hands and gargle in Asahikawa at the same time, the scenery is spectacular. In order to build Okayama Castle, the Date family built nine bridges over the Asahikawa River, and the southernmost bridge was directly connected to the Gokuni Shrine.

At each end of the Gokoku Bridge across the Asahikawa River, there is an 18-meter-high torii gate, which is a wooden torii gate outside the shrine. The eighteen-meter torii gate represents the meaning of Masahiro becoming the head of the Date family at the age of eighteen, and of course, the meaning represented in the external expression is much more sacred.

The purely Japanese-style wooden bridge is surrounded by greenery on the mountain and has not yet entered the main building. I already felt the breath of being away from the world. The wooden bridge will be part of the shrine, and with the exception of boats, only the retainers of the Date family and the families of the wooden cards inside the shrine will be allowed to enter.

The front hall of the Gokuni Shrine enshrines the ancestral deities of the Date family, the legendary ancestor of the Uona San'in, who is the ancestor of the Fujiwara clan, and is listed in a separate room and named the Ryōshoko Shrine. There are two small wooden idols on both sides of the statue of Lianzu Gongyu, which are not comparable to the statue of Gonggong and the statue of Wenzhong.

Just as many Sengoku daimyo impersonated the Genpei family to establish the shogunate in the name of righteousness, Shohei could not change his origins even if he wanted to. He can only be shown as a branch of the Fujiwara Kita family, the fish name Yaman-ryu Date clan.

Zhengheng obviously had no intention of changing his name, he generously showed himself as Fujiwara, and he also put Fujiwara's surname in front of his name. After the front hall, there is a place where the seated statue of Fujiwara Uona, the ancestor of the Uona Yama Rin, is placed, unlike the front hall, where there are only three statues of gods. There are more than 10 statues of gods. All of them are the ancestors of the fish name Yamain Stream, and the name and surname.

In the past, there is the idol of the Date family in Bichu, and in the middle is the ancestor of the Date family in Bichu, that is, the grandfather of Zhengheng, the Date family in Bichu is only five generations, and only the father and son have left deeds, and the front is mostly a name.

Of course, there is no idol of Zhengheng's brother Xinheng in the statue, and his idol is still placed in Tang Song, obviously with no intention of migrating. More than 100 years later, when people talk about the inheritance of the Date family, they always forget about his existence.

In the central hall of Gokoku Shrine, there are a large number of wooden plaques. These wooden plaques are engraved with one name after another, along with a brief description of the family from which they were born, what year, month, and time they died in what battles, and the positions they held during their lifetimes.

Most of these people are the cornerstone of the 1.2 million stone that Masahiro was able to achieve, and the ashigaru and samurai who died in various battles, the most of which are some Ashigaru spiritual positions with only names and no surnames, which are densely placed there.

The shrine now houses nearly 3,000 memorial tablets for the Date family's war dead, most of whom were ashigaru and samurai who died in previous foreign wars, but so far, the number of casualties in the preparation for the Chinese civil war is only a few hundred, and most of them were killed or injured in foreign wars.

Just as Jonghyung decided to begin his ceremony, a golden light lit up over the northern mountain of the shrine, as if it had been smeared with a layer of gold, and the people who were worshipping were bathed in the hazy gold, as if they were dressed in a sacred garment.

Zheng Henggang laughed, as if because of his sudden smile, the golden light gathered behind him at this moment, forming a bright aura. What a miracle! Everyone's eyes were full of admiration, doubt, jealousy and other complicated feelings, but they didn't expect such a scene to appear on the body of this eagle that wanted to soar and take off.

Zheng Henggang didn't feel a trace of surprise at the golden light on his body, as if it was his own, and slowly paced forward while waving his head, while proudly thinking that the Date family would definitely rise in his hands after this miracle, maybe it would not be very difficult to seize the world.

He was followed by the eldest of the family, Noyama Yosaki, Ishikawa Hisataka, Miyahara Masashige, and representatives of various countries, all of whom either had serious expressions, solemn expressions, envy, jealousy, or implied hatred, and showed a dignified and old-fashioned demeanor on the surface.

Of course, due to the chaotic times of the Date family, most of the middle-level samurai, such as Katayama Morinaga, Hengcho father and son, Kakuro Tsunenobu and others did not attend the fiasco ceremony, and they had other important tasks, so I will not introduce them one by one.

Because this is the first time that the Date family has held such a grand worship ceremony before they moved into Okayama Castle, and it is also the first official ceremony after the Date family became a famous person in the world, it can be said that the Date family is showing the world that they are already a wealthy family with enough strength to take over the world.

The guards stood in several rows, separating the people from the samurai, and it was their duty to send a large number of men to hide in the crowd and keep things from developing.

In the melodious chanting sound, Zheng Henggang reverently entered the shrine. In this era, gods and Buddhas are not separated, and Zhengheng has been a Buddhist disciple for a period of time, so naturally he does not have the leisure and elegance to destroy the Buddha and destroy the Buddha, and you Shinto is already polite.

Fumigo Ishimatsu, who was hiding in the shadows, followed the shadows and acted together, following to the left side of Zhengheng. He didn't look around like the other chaotic waves, alert for the appearance of suspicious targets, but instead focused all his attention on Zheng Heng and the others.

Ishimatsu Fumigo was the most important subordinate recruited by Tozawa Hakusai from Koga, he originally had no surname, called Fumigo, and he came to the front of Bei China to have a surname, which is why many Koga were willing to travel thousands of miles to come to Bei Chugo.

The Date family does not discriminate against ninjas, and there are many samurai who are ninja-turned.

Ishimatsu Fumigo also came to Bi China with the dream of becoming a samurai, he had to hide from the sight of other shadows and be wary of other people's damage to Zhengheng, and in terms of individual ability, Ishimatsu Fumigo's strength was stronger than Tozawa Hakusai.

Of course, Tozawa Baiyunzhai is not a lower ninja who pays attention to action, nor is it a middle ninja who appears as a staff member, but an upper ninja who makes decisions, and it is not his strength to be a single soldier. Fumigo Ishimatsu and Amo serve as the guards of the political balance together, Amo is in the open, and he is hidden in the shadows.

After a clear round of applause, all the warriors of the Date family bowed in silence, and the worship hall was silent. Everyone bowed their salutes, except for Chaos and the guards who remained vigilant, to be wary of the disruptors in the audience.

Shi Song Fumigo seemed to feel that someone was leaning over, so he turned his head to look. It turned out to be a young guard, looking nervously around. Stranger, Fumigo Ishimatsu felt a little wary, the most important thing as a ninja is the ability to remember.

At this moment, he found an unfamiliar face, able to become the secret guard of the lord of the country, he must not only be wary of those external assassinations, but also pay attention to the internal guards and samurai, there are many examples of being killed by his own people, such as the Tiger of the Three Rivers who ruled the world before the age of twenty.

It's really unfamiliar, a face that only looks like a teenager can't become a guard, and the standard age to become a guard is twenty-five years old, most of them are veterans of long-term wars, and they are some people who can be trusted. There are a large number of young people in his surname, but Fumigo Ishimatsu knows all the surnames, and the other party is not any of them.

He was too young, if most of the people hadn't closed their eyes and lowered their heads, Ishimatsu Fumigo probably wouldn't have noticed that although he was young, there were still many young people in the team, but he just met his eyes and couldn't help but hold the short blade he was carrying.

The Ukitaharu family is nervous.

In his fifteen years of life, he wanted to kill the man who was worshipping in front of him every moment, but this was the first time he came to carry out the assassination operation, perhaps this was the first and last time, and he did not know what the result would be.

Ukita is his surname, and he took his own name during spring break, but in fact, he doesn't have a motofu yet, and the two brothers he respects the most have died one after another, his eldest brother is called Ukita Naojia, and the second brother is Ukita Tadada, who is their half-brother.

He also has two younger sisters, but now there is no news of them, and they either die or disappear from the crowd.

Growing up, he was never popular. He is mediocre in appearance, has no special skills, and is taciturn and introverted, but he has always been cared for by his two brothers. However, after the invasion of Bizen Kuniko Haruhisa, his two brothers were beheaded on the banks of the Yoshii River as the culprits responsible for the fall of Tenjin Yamajo Castle and the suicide of Urakami Sokei. But he escaped, by a corpse, to be exact. (To be continued......)